Appreciate a Dragon Day

January 16, Every Year!

Appreciate a Dragon Day was started in 2004 by Mrs. Paul to celebrate the release of DragonSpell.
We encourage you to join us as we celebrate literacy and have some fun!

Choose a favorite dragon from literature and then share that dragon in some art form.

Here are a bunch of ways YOU can celebrate on January 16:

BE CREATIVE: Make drawings, sketches, paintings, sculptures, poems, an additional story that might also have happened to this dragon, a song, a play, or a comic strip.

FOR LIBRARIES: Display featured dragon books or children's artwork. How about a competition for the most creative dragon bookmark? Or a poster advertising the dragon book of the child’s choice?

PUPPET SHOWS: Make dragon puppets and put on a show for friends and family.

TREASURE HUNT: Look for "missing" dragon eggs!

TAKE PICTURES: See how many pictures you can take of your favorite stuffed dragon in funny places. Maybe eating a hamburger at McDonald’s? Reading dinosaur books in the library? Shaking hands with the mayor of your town? Waiting at a bus stop? Riding on a fire engine?

FOR CLASSROOMS: Ask children to do individual projects or group artwork. Bring in boxes of all sizes and tie and tape them together to make a giant box sculpture of a dragon.

Volunteers can visit classrooms and read a favorite dragon book.

CREATE A MOSAIC: Get all those free address labels that come as advertisements. Cut off the address and keep the picture. Sort by color. Draw an outline of a dragon on a big sheet of paper and use the colored bits from the address labels to fill in the dragon, mosaic-style.